‘My daughter is 13 and I see now why, in these films, whenever they
represent a Mayan culture, or any tribal culture, or a Hawaiian
culture, they always throw a teenage girl into the volcano as a
sacrifice,’ he joked.

‘I kind of understand why. They [teenage girls] are very opinionated.’

Baldwin
was left red-faced in April 2007 after a vicious voicemail message he
left for Ireland, his daughter with ex-wife Kim Basinger, 55, was
leaked on the internet.

The actor criticised the youngster for
failing to answer his pre-arranged phone call and labelled her mother a
‘thoughtless pain in the a**’.

But speaking to David Letterman, he once again claimed Ireland was going through a difficult stage.

‘Everyone always tells me “Oh it’s their hormones”, and I don’t really care,’ he told the chat show host.

‘They should be sent to some kind of Chinese re-education camp in the mountains for five years.’

Baldwin’s comments come two years after the two-minute voicemail message he left on his daughter’s mobile phone appeared online.

During the message, the 30 Rock star ranted: ‘You are a rude, thoughtless little pig. You don't have the brains or the decency as a human being.

‘I don't give a damn that you’re 12-years-old, or 11-years-old, or that you're a child, or that your mother is a thoughtless pain in the a** who doesn't care about what you do as far as I'm concerned.

'They should be sent to some kind of Chinese re-education camp in the mountains for five years’

‘Once again I have made an a** of myself trying to get to a phone. You have humiliated me for the last time with this phone.’

After the tape was made public, Baldwin publicly apologised to his daughter, claiming his inappropriate message was due to being ‘driven to the edge’ by his custody battle with Miss Basinger.

He wrote on his website: ‘I have a normal relationship with my daughter. I'm sorry, as everyone who knows me is aware, for losing my temper with my child.

‘I have been driven to the edge by parental alienation for many years now. You have to go through this to understand. (Although I hope you never do.) I am sorry for what happened.’

And in his 2008 book, A Promise to Ourselves, he revealed he even considered taking his own life after the message was leaked.

'Driving up the Taconic Parkway, heading to an inn in the Berkshire Mountains, I began to think about what little town I would repair to in order to commit suicide,’ he said.

‘What semi-remote Massachusetts state park could I hike deep into and overdose there?

‘When I returned to New York, the thought of jumping out the window of my apartment was with me every night for weeks.’

Baldwin and Miss Basinger divorced in 2002, after nine years of marriage, and have endured a lengthy custody battle over Ireland.

The teenager currently lives with her mother in California, while her father is based in New York.

But Baldwin told Letterman that despite his problems, he had not given up on the idea of having more children.

‘I’d love to have more kids. I think about getting a Filipino mail-order bride at this point,’ he joked. ‘Or a Russian one. I don’t care, I’m 51.’